YouTube comment downloader
Paste a YouTube link to pull its comments — with author, like count, reply count and age — and export them as CSV, JSON or plain text. No API key needed.
Questions
- Why is there a limit on how many I can pull?
- YouTube hands comments over one page at a time, so a video with 300,000 of them would take about an hour of continuous requests. The cap keeps the tool responsive for everyone. If you need everything on a huge video, run youtube-comment-downloader locally — it is the same library behind this page.
- Are replies included?
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Top-level comments come first, and each row carries a
repliescount and areplyflag so you can tell threads apart. Deep reply chains on very large videos may fall outside the limit you picked. - Why did it return nothing?
- The most common reason is that comments are turned off for that video. Private, members-only, deleted and age-restricted videos also return nothing, since this reads only what a signed-out visitor could see.
- Are the like counts exact?
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No — they arrive the way YouTube displays them, so a popular comment
reads
309krather than309,412. That is what the page itself shows; the exact figure is not published. - Can I use this data?
- Comments are written by real people. Fine for research, sentiment analysis and moderation review; think carefully before republishing someone's words with their name attached, and check YouTube's terms for anything commercial.